Performance Assessment Task

The Pizza Party

Its time to celebrate our hard work this year with a pizza
party, and its up to you to do the planning! Everyone in the
class has voted for a type of pizza, and you want to do your
best to keep everyone happy.
You can record the results of the vote here:
Pepperoni: ______

Vegetarian: ______

Ham and Pineapple: ______ Plain Cheese: ______

Note: A medium pizza from Pizza Heaven costs $12.00 and

has 8 slices.
In this task you will:
Create a pizza order,
including
the number of pizzas of each
variety, the number of slices
each person would get, and
the cost for each person.
Defend your proposal:
What makes your order the
best one for
our class?

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Name ___________________________________ Date ________________

Use the space below, and another page if needed, to work on

your proposal.
What will you do to help someone else understand your
plan?

Make

sure youve answered these questions:

What pizzas should we order?
How much will the pizzas cost?
How many pieces of pizza will we each get?
How much money will we each need to pay?

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Name ___________________________________ Date ________________

We should use my plan!

Here are some reasons why my plan is the best plan for our class
pizza order:
1. ______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
___________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
___________________________

3. ______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
___________________________

4. ______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
___________________________

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Checklist and Rubric: The Pizza Party

Student _____________________________________ Date _____________________
Through this task, the student
demonstrated an understanding
of:

Notes:

addition
subtraction
multiplication
division

Level

Excellent

Proficient

Adequate

Limited *

Insufficient/
Blank *

Criteria
Develops a

Develops a
Develops a
logical plan to workable plan
solve the
to solve the
problem.
problem.

Develops an
inappropriate
plan to solve
the problem.

Calculations
are correct.

Calculations
Calculations
are
are partially
substantially correct.
correct.

Calculations
are
substantially
incorrect.

Solve problems purposeful

using personal plan to solve
strategies for the problem.
operations
(Number 3, 6, 7)
[CN, PS, R]

Uses efficient Uses practical Uses viable

strategies for
strategies for
strategies for
operations.
operations.
operations.

Defend the
proposal
(Processes)

Defends
proposal using
compelling
mathematical
reasoning.

Defends
proposal using
convincing
mathematical
reasoning.

Defends
proposal using
simplistic
mathematical
reasoning.

No score is
awarded
because there
is insufficient
evidence of
student
performance
based on the
requirements
of the
assessment
task.

Uses
unworkable
strategies for
operations.

Defends
proposal using
undeveloped
mathematical
reasoning.

[C, R]
*

When work is judged to be limited or insufficient, the teacher makes decisions about appropriate
intervention to help the student improve.

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